That magic word change sometimes welcomed and sometimes not. It does not matter if we welcome it or not change comes, as the song says” Everything Must Change” ( a beautiful song if you haven’t heard it) I think the first rendition I heard was played by George Benson. So change has brought us yet another welcomed surprise and I would dare say a new day. Yes things are difficult now, they always are just before change. But change is needed for growth. I have been a advocate for change most of my life. Being born an African American Boomer, it seem that things have always been changing all of my life. Yet not enough things changed to make a big difference to me it seemed. I had no real understanding of how change worked.

There are two different kinds of change, one sudden and the other slow. Most of the change that comes suddenly is not good because it is the type of change that forces us to accept it ,and grow as a result of it.

But slow change over time is good , why you ask? Because slow change occurs in such a way that we have to anticipate it and so when it comes it is appreciated for the gift that it is. Sudden change on the other hand is almost always resented, because of the fact that it makes us do things that we in most cases we don’t want to do. Change because of loss can be like that, or change because of circumstance is also like that. But change as reward for long and patient waiting , now that is sweet change. Sam Cook sang a” Change is Going to Come”. And it seems change is here, and it is certainly time for a change.